ORDER

Appellant Anil Kumar stood charged under Section 306 IPC for having abeted the commission of offence of suicide by his wife Renu Bala on the fateful day of 29.10.1985. According to the prosecution case the accused and the deceased were neighbours and they developed intimacy among them. But when the question of their marriage came up, the parents of the deceased did not like the idea and persuaded the deceased not to marry the accused. But on account of close intimacy between the accused and the deceased, and on the insistence of the deceased the marriage took place on 14th August, 1985 without much pomp and show. But soon after the marriage the accused put pressure on his wife the deceased to get money from the parents-in-law and in fact on such demand being made, the father-in-law PW 7 gave a Television and Refrigerator. But soon thereafter when the further demand of Rs. 20,000/- was made PW 7 pleaded inability and wanted some time so that the money could be arranged and given. Then the further prosecution case is that on the date of occurrence at 12.00 noon the accused and the deceased quarrelled among themselves on account of the fact that the father of the deceased did not